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Re: The Washington Post has gone all fonty
Irks me that they capitalize "X height", even as they define it as "literally the height of a lowercase letter x compared to a capital one"!2 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
https://glyphsapp.com/learn/features-part-3-advanced-contextual-alternates (potentially helpful even if you don’t use Glyphs) https://opentypecookbook.com/common-techniques/ (scroll down to Fun Stuff)1 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
Just curious, would taking the OpenType code from an OFL font require using that license for the new font?2 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Some discussion of that in this old thread.2 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Yes, tabular figures should have the same advance width across the roman/italic divide. In the case you mention, I might be likely to make the proportional variants the default.4
